Just demanding something for free and then being rude if you don’t get it fast enough is just not the right way. You should know that foxly does not need to release any code if he chooses to keep the plugin for the company he is working for.

Wow, if the project’s source code is this big, I am fearing that this plugin might get too bloated and therefore unusable. I just hope that this is not the case. Will it be possible to turn of features which we don’t need (e.g. twitter, facebook, flickr, oEmbed, mp3)

To me it seems like that this goal was a marketing strategy in order to get the project financed which worked surprisingly good. The best feature I like about this software is that that each server install is able to communicate with each other. This means that I can have friends on different domains and still share content information. This is something which I haven’t seen before.

With Bp Album + you can only upload one picture at a time. Users prefer selecting batch uploading. Also, only one album per user is possible. I know that there is supposed to come the new version out which has all those features, but the release date is unsure. I am pretty certain that bp is not going away but most likely diaspora will also be around.

There is also this commercial (€59,50) plugin buddyvents. But the testsite (http://test.shabushabu.eu/events/) shows up a lot of warnings which makes me think that the software is not stable (screenshot: http://i52.tinypic.com/5ydv0g.png).
So, yes you are right. There are some event plugins out there but none of them seems to be a good event solution. I used to think that eventpress had the best potential but it has not much evolved since the launch.